There is a moving film clip of Lee Kuan Yew weeping during a press conference after Singapore had been expelled from the Malaysian Federation in 1965. His grand strategy lay in ruins. Singapore’s future looked bleak and vulnerable. People saw the personal impact of his failure, the hard politician at his weakest point.Fifty years later and after his death in March this year at 91, LKY’s Singapore is the third-richest country in the world, the hub of East-West commerce and finance, a hi-tech, efficient green city-state, a country that constantly improves itself. No one doubts that this is essentially the work of one man, a leader who never backed down, who modelled and demanded the highest personal integrity and never shrank from hard decisions or from stating uncomfortable tru
25 June 2015, The Tablet
Late in life Lee Kuan Yew wanted to learn to meditate
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